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Cold Sassy Tree av Olive Ann Burns

Angela's Ashes av Frank McCourt

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy av Douglas Adams

THESE IS MY WORDS: THE DIARY OF SARAH AGNES PRINE av Nancy E. Turner

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics) av Victor Hugo

Something of Value av Robert Ruark

And Then There Were None av Agatha Christie

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Grupper50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2008, Best of British, What Are You Reading Now?

FavoritförfattareCharlotte Brontë, Willa Cather, Agatha Christie, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Elliot, Philip Jose Farmer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Graves, Zane Grey, D.H. Lawrence (Delade favoriter)

Om mig I read. I've always read. I never noticed the real world until last year. After noticing it, I promptly decided to ignore it as much as possible. I also watch movies. Not television. Horror movies, dramas, and comedies are my top favorites, but anything historical is good too. Other than that, my interests are drawing, talking, playing Trivial Pursuit, writing, watching college basketball, baseball, Diet Pepsi, needlework, fishing, and politics.

Reading List 2008---

1. The Lovers--Philip Jose Farmer
2. The Chamber of Secrets--J.K. Rowlings
3. Must Love Dogs--Claire Cook
4. Mutiny on the Bounty--C. Nordhoff/J.N. Hall
5.The Looking Glass War--Frank Beddor
6. Owls well that Ends Well--Donna Andrews
7.Quite a Year for Plums--Bailey White
8. Called Out--A.G. Mojitbai
9. The Ides of March--Thornton Wilder
10. The Reader--Bernhard Schlink
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie--Muriel Spaek
12. Memoirs of a Geisha--Arthur Golden
13. Gertrude and Claudius--John Updike
14.Frankenstein Unbound--Brian w, Aldiss
15. Ice Station Zebra--Alistair MacLean
16. American Psycho--Bret Easton Ellis
17. The Owl and the Pussycat--Richard Hubbard
18. The DeerHunter--
19. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory maguire
20. Communion--Whitley Striber
21. Deliverance--James Dickey
22. Tobacco Road--Erskine Caldwell
23. Atonement--IanMcEwan
24. West of the Moon--Jason Nasaw
25. Ladies of Missalonghi--Colleen McCullough
26. Hatchet--Gary Paulsen
27. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. Goodbye Mr. Chips--James Hilton
29. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
30.Life of Pi--Yann Martel
31. Silverhill--Phyllis A. Whitney
32. The Adam Experiment--Geoffrey Simmons
33. The Book of Fred--Abby Bardi
34. Born For Love--Leo Buscaglia
35.The Rag Nymph--Catherine Cookson
36. Tanner's Twelve Swingers--Lawrence Block
37. All Quiet on the Western Front--Eriche Maria Remarque
38. Field Guide to Chickens--Pam Percy
39. At Wit's End--Erma Bombeck
40. Oh, Kentucky! --Betty Layman Receveur
41. Woman's Doctor--Dr. William J. Sweeney III
42. Forever--Judy Blume
43. Flowers for Algernon--Daniel Keyes
44. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency--Douglas Adams
45. Practical Demonkeeping--Christopher Moore
46. The Neverending Story--Michael Ende
47. Cheaper by the Dozen --Frank Gilbreth
48. The Shadow Riders--Louis L'amour
49. A Boy called Hopeless--David Melton
50. The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse--Nancy Butcher
51. Beneath the Wheel--Hermann Hesse
52. The Stone Diaries--Carol Shields
53.Jamie--Jack Bennett
54. Crazy ladies--Michael Lee West
55. The New Year--Pearl S. Buck
56. How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law--Dorothy Cannell
57. The Green Berets-Robin Moore
58. So Dear to My Heart-Sterling North
59. The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
60. Dreamcatcher--Stephen King
61. This Perfect Day--Ira Levin
62. Plains of Passage--Jean M. Auel
63. Shelters of Stone--Jean M. Auel
64.Needlework in America--Virgina C. Bath
65. Steffie Can't Come Out to Play--Fran Arrick
66. Lord Jim--Joseph Conrad
67. Me and Emma--Elizabeth Flock
68. Star Trek: The Lost Years--J.M. Dillard
69. The Jungle--Upton Sinclair
70. The Grasshopper Trap--Patrick McManus
71. The Forgotten War--William Korstchen
72. Beloved--Toni Morrison
73. Corelli's Mandolin--Louis De Bernieres
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Some Books On My TBR Stack for 2008

Adam Bede
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Psycho
Around the World In Eighty Days
Atonement
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief

Barbary Shore
Beat to Quarters
Bell Jar, The
Beloved
Beneath the Wheel
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Born for Love

Catch-22
Cavern of Babel
Celestial Bed, The
Children of Dune
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Claim in The Hills, A
Communion
Corelli's Mandolin
Courtesan's Daughter, The
Crawfish Dreams
Crazy Ladies

Darkness At Noon
Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dog Who Wouldn't Be
Dombey and Son
Don't Lets Go to The Dogs Tonight
Double Eagle
Dreamcatcher
Dynamo Farm

80 Minute Hour
English Patient
Eye Among the Blind

Family Linen
Flowers for Algernon
Frankenstein Unbound
Funny Farm

Gertrude and Claudius
Green Berets

Ice Station Zebra
Ides of March
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Island of Dr. Moreau

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
Lovers, The

Memoirs of a Geisha
Memory
Midwives
Mill on the Floss
Mr. and Mrs. Cugat

Naked Ape, The
Nerilka's Story
Note From the Underground
Nunaga

Parsival: Or, a Knight's Tale
Perfect Storm
Plains of Passage
Pride and Prejudice
Primary Elections in the South
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Reader, The
Runestone

Sand, Wind,and Stars
Serpent and the Rainbow
Shelters of Stone
Son of Rosemary
Sputnik Sweetheart
Star Trek: The Forgotten War
Star Trek The Lost Years
Star Trek: Reunion
Still Life With Woodpecker

Their Eyes Were Watching God
This Perfect Day
Three Against London
Tobacco
Tobacco Road

View From Here, The

Windwhales of Ishmael
West With The Vikings
World War Z

Om mitt bibliotek It's growing! I've been trying to add at least ten books a week.Hoping one day to have over 100,000 volumes and my own private library to house them.

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Hi! I'm happy you found my Conrad suggestions useful. As to your question about comparisons between Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, I don't see how there could be any substantive decision regarding which is better. They are both great, in my view, but they are different. Heart of Darkness, a novella, is certainly more compact, and more atmospheric in every paragraph. Lord Jim, a novel, is longer, and it meanders somewhat in places. But as an investigation into human nature and into the question of how close an adherence to a personal code, even beyond the limits of common sense, is an admirable thing or a foolish thing, it is extremely powerful. Which is better? I don't know. Is a beautiful sunset better than a brilliant desert night sky full of stars? And which of those is better than a soft morning sunrise over a line of green, rolling hills? Seriously, trying to figure out which of two great works of art is "better" is an exercise that has never interested me. If you could answer the question, what would it get you? What important piece of information would you then possess? Some folks will be moved more by Heart of Darkness than by Lord Jim, and vice versa. C'est la vie!

All the best!
Jerry

inlägg gjort av rocketjk vid 3:06 pm (EST) Jul 27, 2008

The Virginian was great. What a wonderful start to a whole genre. It had all of the things that we see in westerns now but with so much more, including a more well-rounded and complete main character. Most of the hero cowboys don't have the depth which Wister gave to the Virginian.

You should really check out his journals and letters compiled by a descendant, as they explain so much of the beginnings and the journey for the novel. That includes Wister's own experience with maltreatment of a horse. The novel plays down what really happened and the Virginian acts as Wister wished he would have but was not able to.

inlägg gjort av blackdogbooks vid 8:27 pm (EST) Jun 24, 2008

I am loving The Virginian and loved Out West, his journals and Letters even more. It's not a commonly known book but it is well worth hunting up. You should really enjoy Darkness at Noon, as I see it is in your TBR pile there. I really enjoyed looking at your reading list for this year. We've got some overlap.

inlägg gjort av blackdogbooks vid 3:10 pm (EST) Jun 20, 2008

Owl has many more books to add just not enough time to do it. Blackhawk Down is a good one. Wife's brother was wounded in that ordeal and I had two former students in that fray-cuss. All were on little birds. Fortunately owl was not there!

inlägg gjort av owlmoon vid 9:37 am (EST) Jun 15, 2008

OH! Owl is from Altus, Okieland.

inlägg gjort av owlmoon vid 7:08 pm (EST) Jun 13, 2008

Owls well that ends well? Do you think owlmoon would like that?

inlägg gjort av owlmoon vid 7:06 pm (EST) Jun 13, 2008

Thanks for the friend request! I look forward to looking through your library. I have enjoyed your challenge thread. Erin

inlägg gjort av Rarcar1 vid 7:09 pm (EST) May 1, 2008

I know! I don't know many people using this site yet, and most people I know aren't really big readers like I am. I'm glad you find my library interesting also--it's always so fun to find people with similar tastes in books who have read the same things.

inlägg gjort av eheleneb3 vid 2:26 pm (EST) Mar 25, 2008

Thanks for including me on your interesting libraries list. I too am interested in books that don't nescesarily make the current popularity lists. On my mothers death I was left a lot of her books (more than 20 boxes) and I really like to read books that were once popular. I have a feeling for these books that were the "blockbusters" of their time (mostly the 40's and 50's) but now are out of print and not read by anyone. Keep reading! It is definitely more exciting than real life!

inlägg gjort av janeherr vid 1:49 pm (EST) Feb 23, 2008

Oh, good! I'm glad. :) It seemed only right, as you knew already who'd get first listings.

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 2:58 am (EST) Jan 27, 2008

Hi! Thanks for the 'interesting library' nod! :) You've got an enjoyably diverse range of hobbies and interests, looks like. If I may suggest: why not mark your listed authors in the 'Favorite Authors' section? It turns up interesting connections, and shows on the authors' pages.... a casual index of their fan base. I'm with you on usually preferring my fiction, at least, vintage; though there are exceptions. - And yes, it's a great feeling to give unwanted books of no illustrious title, shall we say, a good home. :)

J.

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 2:00 am (EST) Jan 26, 2008

Hey, I've got a question (and I'm going to ask everyone who has this book, so I may end up getting a lot of answers, lol):

I've got a book that I can't identify. It looks like it's from the 50s or 60s. It's designed for young readers. I don't know the title of it, author, or ISBN because those pages have been torn off.

On page 4, it reads:

"This is a guide to aid you in identifying rocks and minerals. But it is more than that. This book will also help you understand the importance of rocks and minerals in our daily lives."

On page 5, there is an artist's depiction of a car that I think must be from the 50s or 60s.

I think this book might be the same one that you own entitled, "Rocks and Minerals" by Herbert Spencer Zim.

Could you please check page 4 to see if those are the first words?

Oh, another thing, this book is small (pocket sized) - as a field guide should be.

Thanks very much!

inlägg gjort av glanecia vid 7:04 pm (EST) Oct 24, 2007

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